I was only vaguely aware of some of these.
The way I follow CBB is vastly different from the way I follow CFB.
The result of all of this, at least for me, is that I really don't care about CBB nationally until the Tournament. I know there will be some SEC teams in the tournament but I could care less if Arkansas and Kentucky get in while Bama and Tennessee host NIT games or vice-versa so I don't care who wins the AR/TN and Bama/Kentucky games.
this isn't all that different from the way i follow cbb. bama just happened to play certain teams where i learned some of this through happenstance.
uk/arky is obvious. played unc, which happened to be right at beginning of their downfall this season. also played uconn, houston, and gonzaga, which had me looking at top of rankings a lot during non-conf season. so i noticed a few teams early on drop quickly.
also, bama is (hopefully) unusually competing for a potential 1 seed, so i've looked a little more than normal because of that.
and finally, when you (or whoever, too lazy to go back and see who posted it) said it was bad start for preseason fav, i knew sec and acc favs also had bad starts, and decided to check all major confs. vaguely knew bigxii was a mess due to strength of conf. had no idea about pac though.
basically, i had proximate knowledge, but had to look up to confirm.